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Author Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice, 1930-2019.

Title The uncertainties of knowledge / Immanuel Wallerstein.

Imprint Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  300.1 W156u 2004    ---  Available
Description v11, 211 p. ; 22 cm.
Series Politics, history, and social change
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-205) and index.
Contents For science, against scientism : the dilemmas of contemporary knowledge production -- Social sciences in the twenty-first century -- The end of certainties in the social sciences -- Braudel and interscience : a preacher to empty pews? -- Time and duration : the unexcluded middle, or reflections on Braudel and Prigogine -- The itinerary of world-systems analysis, or how to resist becoming a theory -- History in search of science -- Writing history -- Global culture(s) : salvation, menace, or myth? -- From sociology to historical social science : prospects and obstacles -- Anthropology, sociology, and other dubious disciplines.
Subject Social sciences -- Philosophy.
Scientism.
Education, Higher -- Social aspects.
Social change.
Braudel, Fernand.
Prigogine, I. (Ilya)
ISBN 159213243X (pbk. : alk. paper)
1592132421 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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